Baidu CEO, Robin Li Says They are Prepared Google’s Second Attempt for China

In an attempt to come back in Chinese market, Google is again making a try in China with censored apps, its biggest rival in the country, Baidu, said it was prepared to take on the US tech giant and defeat it, the media reported.

Baidu CEO Robin Li wrote on his verified WeChat account that if “Google decides to return to China, we are very confident we can just PK and win again.”

PK, short for “player-kill,” is a Chinese slang that originated as a gaming context to refer to one player killing another.

Both Baidu and Google are search engine giants which also offer Cloud services while making huge investments in Artificial Intelligence for their growth.

In the second quarter of this year, total revenue for Baidu stood at $3.93 billion, a 32-per-cent increase from the same quarter last year, with mobile revenue remaining the main contributor, Xinhua reported on August 1, citing the company’s unaudited financial statement.